AI companies want you to think their AI will magically replace all those annoying human employees. In reality, AI runs on low-paid labor — lots of it. Actual people are needed to tag and label phot…
I’ve been working up a proper sneer about this for a little while now. The real service that AI provides is that the managers who implement it get increased psychic distance from the people being exploited to power their profits. It’s sociopathy as a service; the exploitation still happens, but you no longer have to bear the burden of looking them in the eyes and deny their PTO request or tell them to clean out their desk.
I’ve been working up a proper sneer about this for a little while now. The real service that AI provides is that the managers who implement it get increased psychic distance from the people being exploited to power their profits. It’s sociopathy as a service; the exploitation still happens, but you no longer have to bear the burden of looking them in the eyes and deny their PTO request or tell them to clean out their desk.